Proper Questions (was: RE: TEXT file doubt)

Can't this be said of anyone who asks a question here??  Almost ALL the
answers are in SOME manual.

If you don't like the questions Murali asks, why don't you skip them??
Being as there is no "Newbies" forum.

Did any of you see John Carr's post on the Non-Tech list by any chance?!?
Didn't see any complaints (and I have none), but these forums will draw a
wide variety of opinion/questions/answers.  Get used to it, is my
philosophy, as the world is getting smaller.  I don't like questions/answers
that imply that RPGIV is ANYTHING OTHER than "a better Cobol than Cobol", "a
better C than C", and soon perhaps "a better Java than Java"..

..but I learn from a lot of them anyway.

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces+jt=ee.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Saunders,

| Hi Paul,
| I agree with your comments, as these questions are obviously from someone
| who's not RTFM and is getting everyone on the list to do his investigation
| and development for him.
| Cheers
| Robin
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx]
| Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:37 PM
| To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
| Subject: Re: TEXT file doubt
|
|
| I don't want to ignite a war here, but with all due respect, the types of
| questions Murali posts here are pretty elementary. Murali needs to get
| some training at COMMON, at a tech conference, at his local community
| college. He also needs to learn how to use Google. I Googled on
| FMTDTA and
| got links to the answer he needs on the first page.
|
| OK, I got that off my chest.
|
| Paul Nelson
| Arbor Solutions, Inc.
| 708-670-6978  Cell
| pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
|
|
|
|
|
| Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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|
| Well, this question makes me want to rant - against IBM. In looking for
| the
| Sort user's Guide, I see that there is not any reference to PDM in the
| main
| InfoCenter site for V5R2. Are you kidding, IBM? If you search on FMTDTA,
| all you get are references to distributed data management.
|
| At any rate, what you want is the Sort user's Guide (Who would know who's
| not been around this machine very long? - Oy!) to get to it (the link is
| below) means going to InfoCenter, to iSeries supplemental manuals. This
| takes you to a different window. There you need to go to the V5R1 PDFs
| link, where you can find the Sort manual, as well as the PDM guide.
|
| The link is
| <http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/books/c0918260.pdf>. I
| think you'd be best served by digging through that, as you have done with
| other stuff. I can't help, as I've never actually used FMTDTA.
|
| What's really stupid, in my mind, is that the Application Development
| Manager manuals are still directly available in InfoCenter - and these
| have
| been officially terminated, right?
|
| Egad!
|
| HTH
|
| Vern
|
| At 05:20 AM 2/24/2004 -0800, you wrote:
| >Good Morning friends,
| >
| >I have the following command in my CL
| >
| >FMTDTA     INFILE((&FLIB/YCP05305)) +
| >
| >              OUTFILE(&FLIB/YWKCP53T) +
| >
| >              SRCFILE(YGSC/QDDSSRC) SRCMBR(YCP05310S) +
| >              OPTION(*NOPRT)
| >
| >
| >I know that some sorting is going on the infile
| >YCP05305  and producing the outfile YWKCP53T
| >based on the selection criteria written in the text
| >file YCP05310S.
| >when i saw this text file YCP05310S, i could see
| >following
| >  HSORTR    24A        3X  83 N N
| >  I
| >  FNC  10  17                       ACCOUNT
| >  FNC   4   5                       EXCH
| >  FNC   2   3                       FC
| >  FNC  25  26                       YEAR
| >  FNC  23  24                       MONTH
| >  FNC  58  58                       P/C
| >  FNC  39  43                       STRIKE
| >  FNC  76  77                       PROMPT DAY
| >  FDC   1  83
| >Can anyone let me know how the selection criteria is
| >happening here in the above text file(what is this
| >code doing), I could not understand. Also I have seen
| >some folks suggesting some time back some manual on
| >this textfiles to read.
| >I request you post it again  , Thanks so much for your
| >help! If more info is required plz ask me.
|
|
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